The Power of the R Programming Language

The Power of the R Programming Language 382

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:33PM from the much-better-than-Q dept.

BartlebyScrivener writes "The New York Times has an article on the R programming language. The Times describes it as: 'a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is becoming their lingua franca partly because data mining has entered a golden age, whether being used to set ad prices, find new drugs more quickly or fine-tune financial models. Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it.'"

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What's a pirate's favorite programming language? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:39PM (#26366279)

R!

Well... (Score:5, Funny)

by Weaselmancer ( 533834 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:46PM (#26366359)

...if at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.

Re:Based on S (Score:5, Funny)

by irtza ( 893217 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:51PM (#26366417) Homepage

Trying to find middle ground with C?

Re: hence: when he restored unto Moses fled from m (Score:4, Funny)

by RuBLed ( 995686 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:52PM (#26366441)

All that scrambled verses and you forgot the part where the Nazi torpedoed Noah's Ark so it ran aground at the mountains of Ararat.

Sure about that? (Score:4, Funny)

by Bill, Shooter of Bul ( 629286 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @09:11PM (#26366623) Journal
I'd have guessed perl. Think about it
1. Sounds like treasure ( pearls)
2. Reinforces their need to hide their booty by making indecipherable maps to the treasure buried within
3. Incomprehensible mangling of commong symbols, like their english dialect.
4. It often requires the programmer to consume large amounts of rum as a coping mechanisim
5. New virtual machine Parrot named after favorite pet
6. Can use actual pirate language to program Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl [cpan.org]
Re:What's a pirate's favorite programming language (Score:5, Funny)

by fred fleenblat ( 463628 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @09:17PM (#26366693) Homepage

http://www.arrrrrr.com/corsair.jpg [arrrrrr.com]

Re:r-project.org (Score:5, Funny)

by DahGhostfacedFiddlah ( 470393 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @09:55PM (#26367031)

the libraries available for doing such analysis are unparalleled.
With multi-core processors becoming more and more prevalent, R's developers should remedy this as soon as possible.

Re:Sure about that? (Score:4, Funny)

by i_ate_god ( 899684 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @10:47PM (#26367437)

not to mention that, because of reason 3, it is the most drunk-friendly programming language there is.

Re:Only for certain kind of analyst... (Score:5, Funny)

by PachmanP ( 881352 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @10:57PM (#26367527)

So we can the financial crisis on idiots who don't understand that GIGO applies in EVERY computer language?
No, but we can the dropping of verbs on idiots who don't understand that they apply to EVERY sentence!

Re:Sure about that? (Score:5, Funny)

by ppanon ( 16583 ) writes: on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @11:11PM (#26367645) Homepage Journal

Didn't they make a pirate movie call "The curse of the Black Perl"? Presumably it's about particularly obfuscated legacy code.

Don't be ridiculous (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:14AM (#26368103)

You didn't have any friends in the 3rd grade.

Re:Sure about that? (Score:2, Funny)

by WWWWolf ( 2428 ) writes: <wwwwolf@iki.fi> on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:11AM (#26369527) Homepage

Didn't they make a pirate movie call "The curse of the Black Perl"? Presumably it's about particularly obfuscated legacy code.
No, it's more darker and sinister than that [wikipedia.org]...

Re:Based on S (Score:5, Funny)

by digitig ( 1056110 ) writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:49AM (#26369681)

It could be worse. Try searching for the natural language processing system "Lolita".

Re:What's a pirate's favorite programming language (Score:3, Funny)

by roaddemon ( 666475 ) writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:04AM (#26370573)

No, it's P. It's like R but it's missing a leg!

Re:Only for certain kind of analyst... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:48AM (#26370931)

No, but we can the dropping of verbs on idiots who don't understand that they apply to EVERY sentence!
Now, now; maybe he accidentally a coca-cola bottle.

Re:Based on S (Score:4, Funny)

by cerberusss ( 660701 ) writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:01AM (#26371901) Journal

I tried. The search results are extremely relevant to my interests. Of course, I don't use the natural language processing system "Lolita".

Re:Only for certain kind of analyst... (Score:4, Funny)

by arelas ( 1336019 ) writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:05AM (#26371939) Homepage

I assumed it was the new pirate language everyone was raving about.

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This is where my sig would go if I had one...

Re:Based on S (Score:4, Funny)

by Just Some Guy ( 3352 ) writes: <kirk+slashdot@strauser.com> on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:03PM (#26372767) Homepage Journal

That "Post Anonymously" button is kind of hard to miss these days.

Re:Only for certain kind of analyst... (Score:2, Funny)

by Mr. Theorem ( 33952 ) writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:10PM (#26372851)

Labview: putting the spaghetti in spaghetti code.

Re:Only for certain kind of analyst... (Score:2, Funny)

by przemekklosowski ( 448666 ) writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:34PM (#26373217)

The best characterization of LabView is:
Finally we can write spaghetti code that looks like spaghetti.

Re:Only for certain kind of analyst... (Score:3, Funny)

by blueskies ( 525815 ) writes: on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:13PM (#26373781) Journal

Why don't they just use Word if they need a database??
http://www.neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2003/09/29/5458.aspx [neopoleon.com]

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